Based on history, these S devices are mainly internal upgrades. The next iPhone may excite you again.
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I don't, obviously. My point is many android cheerleaders very clearly do.
Really, though? Are there people out there right now actually actively using Air Gestures? Does anyone know why?
What most of these companies are doing is simple gimmickry, bringing to market features that nobody wants or will use purely to score imaginary points against their competitors. If you want to count every new chocolate teapot as an "innovation" you go right ahead, but there's one company with a habit of having good new ideas which stick and actually benefit people, and it ain't Samsung.
If you weren't so dazzled by the pretty colours and the font, you'd notice that ios 7 has quite a few other tricks under the hood, some of which are even - dare I say it - innovative?
To me your statement reeks of fanboyism.
Everything Samsung does is gimmickry and everything Apple does is innovation?
Not what i said - but lets clear something up while we're on the subject of Samsung. I remember exactly what samsung thought a smartphone was and should be before the iPhone came along, and the fact is it was apples innovation in that market that drove 90% of what Samsung did next. That's just a given as far as I'm concerned; we've all watched that happen over the past 5-6 years.
So we've got one company with a undeniable track record of innovation and then we've got Samsung. And I've asked, and other people here have asked, and we're all still waiting - what have Samsung done that's so worthwhile and innovative? What have they brought to the table here?
If you had actually bothered to pay attention and read my sig, you'd know that I own a 4.
Perhaps you should stop making an ass of yourself and pay attention.
Why people care so much about design this days ? I will understand if you want a bigger screen and 5S won't have one.
Recently we bought a strong machine to the company costs 50k$ but it looked like the same old model from 2009 we had. people only cared about the design.. its unbeliveable.
With the latest 128GB rumours, I'm suddenly much more interested.
Although a tougher (less cheap) anodization layer on the black model is still the deal breaker for me.
Although a tougher (less cheap) anodization layer on the black model is still the deal breaker for me.
I think Apple learned it's lesson with iPhone 5 and the new 5S or 6 or whatever will be more resistant to scuffs and scratches.
I think Apple learned it's lesson with iPhone 5 and the new 5S or 6 or whatever will be more resistant to scuffs and scratches.
I sincerely hope you're right . . .
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If you had actually bothered to pay attention and read my sig, you'd know that I own a 4.
Perhaps you should stop making an ass of yourself and pay attention.
An ass of myself? Right. Scrub.
Posters on this forum felt that the 5 was dull, boring, the same. A phone where Apple changed the hardware inside and out. Meaningful changes. Cosmetic changes. Even the screen got bigger.
There is no longer any change that will give these people the thrill they are hoping to find. A huge screen might do it for some, but may also put off just as many. No matter what happens next I suspect this spirit of dissatisfaction will permeate the forum from now on.
There is no longer any change that will give these people the thrill they are hoping to find. A huge screen might do it for some, but may also put off just as many. No matter what happens next I suspect this spirit of dissatisfaction will permeate the forum from now on.
iPhone Camera
The camera on the iPhone sucks at taking pictures of concerts. The guy next to me had a Samsung and his camera would focus on the band on stage. The lights always affected the iPhone camera which never focused and everything was always bright and white. No details at all. What a waste.
The camera on the iPhone sucks at taking pictures of concerts. The guy next to me had a Samsung and his camera would focus on the band on stage. The lights always affected the iPhone camera which never focused and everything was always bright and white. No details at all. What a waste.
Siri came with the 4S
.I think the excitement of 4 was the brand new design, competely different from the 3GS. The speed and power was a big jump also. I remember when they showed "Epic Citidel" running on the 4, and I was blown away (still looks amazing IMO). Also, the looks of the 4 were killer compared to the 3GS.
I strongly encourage you look up the HP iPAQ before you give Apple too much credit for the design of the iPhone. You might be surprised at what you find was out there years before Apple "innovated" the design of the iPhone.
Heck, the name iPAQ even sounds familiar...
This model is from like 2003...
I'm very familiar with the Ipaq etc. Hell, in 2003 I was using a Sony Ericsson P800, a touchscreen smartphone with Internet, email, music, apps, a camera - so don't lecture me about prior art. I had a succession of smartphones before the iPhone ever existed and actually laughed off the first iphone for its lack of apps. But by the time the 3G turned up I could see the way things were going and the truth is, Apple turned that smartphone industry I was familiar with upside down, and I'm grateful to them for that, because we all got better products as a result of that, whichever brand we brought from.
So your saying because Apple did a smartphone better (eventually) that's innovation?
Isn't Samsung doing the same thing Apple did years ago?
You need to understand, unlike you, who may be practical and functional, some of us are different, and want something new, different, and unique. We're the group of people that bring change to our world in terms of visual appearance. It's all about the makeup of people from a psychological artistic standpoint. We want the next iPhone to be progressive in appearance and a 4.3 or 4.7 inch. screen won't be so bad either.
They didn't just do it better, they understood exactly what was wrong with the existing products and did things differently, took it in a whole new direction and created something that, for all it's similarity on paper, was essentially something new. That is absolutely the complete opposite of what Samsung is doing, and exactly what samsung had already proved incapable of doing at the time - don't lose sight of the fact that it's still Apple, not Samsung or HTC or Motorola etc that's the newcomer to smartphones. Sammy isn't some scrappy challenger to the crown, it's the same monolith that was quite content producing the same old unchanging windows mobile crap as everyone else year after year until Apple stole their lunch.
For all of those who keep harping on how innovative Apple was with the iPhone let me remind you that it wasn't Apple. It was visionary Steve Jobs. That vision no longer exists in the company. Need I say more?